Nurture via Nature: Hong Kong Nature Connectedness and Outdoor Environmental Education

With climate change being a serious environmental problem along with the pandemic in recent years, social sustainability and human well-being faced loads of critical challenges. Yet, we strongly believe that connecting with nature is crucial for environmental education and children’s physical and mental health.

Supported by the Swire Group Charitable Trust, Hong Kong Maritime Museum (HKMM) is honoured to be the Strategic Education Partner of Outdoor Wildlife Learning Hong Kong (OWLHK) to support the new project “Nurture via Nature: Hong Kong Nature Connectedness and Outdoor Environmental Education”! The project will include the FIRST Hong Kong territory-wide baseline survey for “children nature connectedness” and “outdoor environmental education in primary school”. Together with a series of work on publicity and advocacy, different stakeholders in the society would get an insight into the significance of connecting with nature, as well as drive the development of outdoor environmental education as a whole for the…